For more than four decades UVA alumnus Dr. Irwin Berman (MD '62) has explored a variety of artistic practices and media. This exhibition presents a selection of his stools, designed as art statements. Whether he chooses to manipulate photographic properties or transform wood, metal, plastic and glass into surprising forms, Berman pushes the boundaries of a material's ﬂexibility, achieving results that can range from elegant formal sculptures to playful and challenging three-dimensional forms. Humor and deep reﬂection coexist in ironic, playful, and deeply serious ways. The dynamic tensions and topical references call on viewers and sitters alike to question our ecological, ethical, and sexual beliefs and practices.

William Wylie, photographer and associate professor in the McIntire Department of Art, has worked over seven years making photographs and shooting video in the spectacular marble quarries of Carrara, Italy. The 2008 video pieces are meditations on the workers and the work involved in everyday activities within the quarries. Using High-Definition video to record the passing of time and the processes involved in moving, cutting, and hauling the massive marble blocks, these videos capture the essence of the labor and life of the cavatori (stonecutters) as well as the machines that they use to dismantle the mountains. Wylie is debuting these films at the Museum.

James E. Buttersworth, American, 1817-1894 A Racing Yacht on the Great South Bay, 19th-century
Oil on canvas
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Gift of Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr. Photo by Travis Fullertont

LOOK HERE SpeedMay 10 - August 3

Drawn from the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, LOOK HERE Speed explores artists' use of “motion” in their work. Featured in the exhibition are a variety of pieces, ranging from paintings to sculpture and mobiles. In addition to exploring the ability to literally depict or more subtly convey speed and motion in a particular piece, the exhibition also examines the dialogue between an artist's intention and the viewer's perceptions, such as whether an artist intended a brush stroke to give the appearance of being made slowly or quickly. Among the works featured in the exhibition are James E. Butterworth's 19th-century painting A Racing Yacht on the Great South Bay, Jacob Lawrence's 1943 watercolor Subway—Home from Work, and a 20th-century Eshu dance hook made by a Yoruba artist.

LOOK HERE Speed organized from VMFA is sponsored by SunTrust with generous support from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Additional support provided by the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Exhibitions Endowment, the Fabergé Ball Endowment, the Fabergé Society, and The Council of VMFA.The exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum is supported in part by the J. Sanford Miller Family Trust.

Drawn from the Museum's growing collection of Tibetan objects, the exhibition, organized by Elena Pakhutova, the 2007-08 Luzak-Linder Graduate Student Fellow, responds to the interest in our academic and Charlottesville communities in Himalayan art and culture. Featured in the exhibition are selections from the Museum's ﬁne collection of Tibetan tangkas.

Mutual AttractionPhotographs from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art MuseumJune 10 - August 30

In this small grouping selected from a trove of choice photographic images held by the University of Virginia Art Museum, attraction is the essential and often explicit ingredient. As these examples suggest, attraction becomes beauty when it is reciprocated. Some subjects openly court the photographer¹s gaze with their own good looks, while others respond to each other or themselves in situations made for us, strangers they will never know. Included in the exhibition are works by Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Burk Uzzle and William Wylie.

John Toole arrived in Albemarle County in 1825 to
attend the University of Virginia. His studies were
short lived as he found painting far more interesting.
His career as a proliﬁc itinerant portrait painter
spanned over 35 years and today his images offer
a peek into the lives of middle-class Virginians.
The exhibition, drawn from more than forty paintings
and drawings that comprise the collection as well
as his extensive archive that together makes up
the John Toole Memorial Trust, offers a rarely seen
glimpse of the way in which an itinerate painter
earned his living. The exhibition is organized by
Christopher Oliver, an art history graduate student
and Museum intern.

Exhibition made possible by the John Toole Memorial Trust of the University of Virginia Art Museum.

The University of Virginia Art Museum exhibits art from around the world dating from ancient times to the present. In addition to its permanent collection, the Museum offers changing exhibitions, accompanied by related programs and publications.

Reproduction, including downloading of Albers, Davis, Frost, Shapiro, and Warhol works is prohibited by copyright lawsand international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.